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EDUCATION:

Here's more impressive evidence that higher education is experiencing a giant, unsustainable bubble.

"The number of bonuses awarded at OSU more than doubled from the year before to 4,028."

Those bonuses were paid with our tax dollars. Nothing like making millionaires richer.

"“I have never seen anything like this — never,” said Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

Vedder said that the scale of bonuses given at OSU “is not the norm in higher education.”"

"“Bonuses, when they’re given in the private sector, are usually tied to a very specific list of criteria,” Vedder said, adding such deliverables are rare in the public sector because there is no bottom line."

At least somebody at OSU understands the situation. But we also have evidence the bubble is beginning to burst.

"But WSU is struggling to keep up with declining state revenues, which account for a quarter of its funding, according to Mark Polatajko, vice president of business and fiscal affairs. He said that 70 percent of the university’s budget is tied up in payroll, and the state’s share has dropped from $5,700 per employee to roughly $4,900 in the past decade."

So state funding is falling while federal funding is increasing. Schools used to be called state schools. Now they're becoming federal schools. But the federal funding will go away too. This is a rare, great article from the DDN.

Teacher's aid fired for refusing to give her supervisor her Facebook password.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Americans experienced record high temperatures in March. The rest of the world experienced record lows, but that's not mentioned in the article because it's designed to feed global warming alarmism.

TAX AND SPEND:

On Britain's tax slaves.

POLICE STATE:

In an act of political hypocrisy, British conservatives to pass warrantless surveillance bill they blocked when Labor was in power.

US police now routinely track and monitor cell phone use without warrants.

FOREIGN POLICY:

The Syrian government claims victory over the rebels, but the US government attempts to keep the blood flowing. Instead of allowing the violence to end, the US government is funding and equiping the rebels to keep the war and bloodshed going. I haven't heard that the Syrian government was invading or bombing the US, so why is our government killing people over there?

I repeatedly point out that politicians are not like us. Because the most important skill they need is to be able to lie without conscience, they tend to be sadists, psychopaths and sociopaths and the worst of the worst rise to the top. These statements about brutally murdering Palestinians from Bill Kristol's staff at his lobbying group illustrate what I mean.

POLITICS:

Paul supporters in Washington team up with Santorum supporters with the blessing of Santorum to deny Romney delegates.

All those people who speculated that Ron Paul might accept a VP slot with Romney were fools.

Ron Paul says he's trying to save the Republican Party. As egotistical as this is, it's accurate. Both parties are disintegrating.

""The truth is, I'm trying to save the Republican Party from themselves because they want perpetual wars, they don't care about presidents who assassinate American citizens, they don't care about searching our houses without search warrants, and these are the kind of things people care about," Paul said on CBS' "Face the Nation.""

Both parties support all those things, but Paul's ego is focused on himself.

MEDIA:

Milwaukee paper offers great analysis of why conservative voters should vote for Ron Paul.

NBC busted for editing the Zimmerman 911 call to make it appear Zimmerman is a bigot. Maybe he was looking about because Zimmerman was stalking him.

LOCAL:

The news is reporting more than a hundred people gathered in Courthouse Square demanding justice for Trayvon Martin. I would like justice for Trayvon Martin too, so I want to see all the evidence, not a lynch mob, but what's so interesting is the incredibly small number of people. Why are we talking about a hundred people gathering in a county of a million people? The murder mystery dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse on Monday nights draws that many people. The news story here is that despite how much press the media has donated to this cause, the turnout was outrageously low. When the tea party brought thousands into Courthouse Square, the DDN said fewer showed up and treated it as if it was no big deal. Now they're making a big deal out of a hundred people. I drove past there while it was happening. There were nearly as many news people as protesters.